scholarly journals Temporary Labor Migration within the EU as Structural Injustice

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasia Nuti
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Structural Injustice ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Temporary Labor ◽  
Temporary Migrants ◽  
Special Rights ◽  
The Eu

AbstractTemporary labor migration (TLM) constitutes a significant trend of migration movements within the European Union, especially after the 2004 and 2007 EU enlargements. However, compared to other forms of TLM, intra-EU TLM has received scant attention from normative theorists. By drawing on Iris Marion Young's conception of structural injustice, this article analyzes the injustice of TLM within the EU. It argues that purely rights-based approaches are deficient and that a structural injustice approach is needed. The latter sheds light on the formal and informal processes that place EU temporary migrants in a condition of vulnerability and reveals the multiple individual and collective agents participating in such processes. Moreover, such an approach offers important insights into the agency of migrants by showing how they themselves reinforce structural processes that put not only (i) individual temporary migrants but also (ii) similarly positioned migrants and (iii) other members of the sending and receiving countries in a vulnerable position. A structural injustice approach does not deny that intra-EU temporary labor migrants should enjoy the rights and entitlements that they currently have in the host country as European citizens. Nor does it dispute that reducing the vulnerability of temporary migrants may require “special rights” accommodating the specific nature of their life plans. Instead, though such rights may be necessary, a structural injustice approach demonstrates how they are insufficient to tackle the injustice of intra-EU TLM and other forms of temporary labor migration more broadly.

Law enforcement practice in the EU in the field of labor migration

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-58
Author(s):  
Natalia G. Dekhanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Eu

The article analyzes the regulatory framework. establishing the sta- tus of citizens of the countries of the European Union (EU). The author identifies problems that can become an obstacle in the process of unification of the law regulating labor of migrants in the EU countries. The study identified and analyzed the main problems faced by migrants from EU countries, in particular, migration registration, registration as an individual entrepreneur, access to services in the financial and credit sector and many other areas of activity of labor migrants. The author uses an integrated approach to considering the problems of mi- gration, economic and social nature. A proposal was made on the further development of partnerships between EU member states in the context of a pandemic and the introduction of severe restrictions.

Gendered State Assemblages and Temporary Labor Migration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samanthi J. Gunawardana
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Temporary Labor ◽  
Gendered Harm

This chapter draws on “assemblage thinking” to understand how the gendered state relates in seemingly contradictory ways to its citizens going overseas as temporary labor migrants. Using Sri Lanka as an illustrative case, the chapter presents the argument that there are three distinct but interrelated gendered state assemblages: regulatory gendered state assemblages, protective gendered state assemblages, and brokerage gendered state assemblages. Thus, migration flows are sustained while acknowledging and attempting to address gendered harm. The particular configuration of power relations within the constitutive elements of the assemblage helps to produce the gendered state, which, in turn, produces and reproduces gender.

scholarly journals Assembling European health security: Epidemic intelligence and the hunt for cross-border health threats

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Bengtsson ◽  
Stefan Borg ◽  
Mark Rhinard
Keyword(s):  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Epidemic Intelligence ◽  
Knowledge Regime ◽  
Health Threats ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
European Health ◽  
The Eu

The securitization of health concerns within the European Union has hitherto received scant attention compared to other sectors. Drawing on the conceptual toolbox of actor-network theory, this article examines how a ‘health security assemblage’ rooted in EU governance has emerged, expanded, and stabilized. At the heart of this assemblage lies a particular knowledge regime, known as epidemic intelligence (EI): a vigilance-oriented approach of early detection and containment drawing on web-scanning tools and other informal sources. Despite its differences compared to entrenched traditions in public health, EI has, in only a decade’s time, gained central importance at the EU level. EI is simultaneously constituted by, and performative of, a particular understanding of health security problems. By ‘following the actor’, this article seeks to account for how EI has made the hunt for potential health threats so central that detection and containment, rather than prevention, have become the preferred policy options. This article draws out some of the implications of this shift.

scholarly journals The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the volume of labor migration, employment, and remittances

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Olha Podra ◽  
Nataliia Petryshyn ◽  
Oksana Bayik ◽  
Ulyana Bobko ◽  
Halyna Levkiv
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Critical Methods

Flows of external labor migration in most cases occur under the influence of the internal economic and political situation in the country; however, in 2020 these trends changed significantly for reasons which did not depend on the socio-economic situation. In order to determine the volume of labor migration in 2020, an analysis was conducted. According to the results, it has been concluded that, despite the restrictive quarantine measures implemented in the European Union (EU) that caused the partial return of migrants to their countries, the rise in unemployment and slow economic growth, labor migrants are highly employed in key occupations of EU that are vital in the fight against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It has been noticed that EU countries increase the number of officially issued residence permits to citizens of non-member countries every year, and Ukraine has become the absolute leader in the number of received residence permits, as well as the leader among European countries by the volume of the received remittances. An abstract-logical and systematic approach, analytical, comparative, graphical, and critical methods were used in the study. Prospects for external labor migration of Ukrainians to European countries have been identified.

scholarly journals Self-Government at the Court of Justice of the European Union: A Bedrock for Institutional Success

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 2007-2030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Krenn
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Administrative Governance ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThis contribution deals with a topic that has so far received scant attention: the administrative governance of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Over the course of the last 65 years, the CJEU has developed its own particular version of judicial self-government. This article analyzes its genesis, its characteristic features and provides a comprehensive assessment. Three arguments are put forward: First, self-government at the CJEU can be associated with a number of positive effects for the Court as an institution. It contributes to keeping the Court out of the public limelight, to fostering its judicial authority vis-à-vis key compliance constituencies and to securing its judicial independence. Second, while strong forms of judicial self-government can lead to a lack of transparency and accountability, these problematic side effects have been largely avoided at the CJEU. This is, in many respects, due to the dialogic accountability relationship that has been established with the European Parliament in the context of the EU budgetary process. Nevertheless, third, as regards more recent developments, such as the establishment of an expert panel for selecting new CJEU members and the Court's legislative role in amending its own Statute, from the perspective of transparency, room for improvement exists.

scholarly journals LABOR MIGRATION IN THE FAR EAST OF RUSSIA: BEFORE AND AFTER 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 171-174
Author(s):  
S.N. Mishchuk
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Far East ◽  
Far East Of Russia ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Temporary Labor

Demographic processes and situation in the Far East of Russia have historically been determined by the dynamics of migration. As part of the influx of temporary labor migrants, the number of internal labor migrants is constantly increasing, and the number of foreign citizens working under work permits and patents is decreasing. The restrictions on the entry of foreign citizens in the spring of 2020 had a greater impact on construction and agriculture.

scholarly journals Dynamics of labor migration in the Republic of Bashkortostan

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-278
Author(s):  
G. F. Akhmetova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Republic Of Bashkortostan ◽  
Temporary Labor ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Demographic Potential

The article considers some indicators of the widespread social phenomenon in Russia - labor migration, which, according to the data for 2019, involves about 2.9 million Russians, or 4% of the employed population. These are internal labor migrants who temporarily work outside their regions. This type of labor migration of Russians has common features with temporary employment in the United States, Canada, and Australia (long distance commuting - LDC), fly-in/fly-out - FIFO). The empirical basis of the article consists of the statistical data (results of the labor force survey by the Federal State Statistics Service for 2011-2019) and the results of sociological research conducted in the region with a high level of shift employment - the Republic of Bashkortostan - in 2015-2019. The statistical data prove regional differences in the Russian shift employment: the majority (72%) of internal labor migrants live in a third of the regions with high and medium levels of temporary labor migration; in some regions, the level of temporary labor migration decreases. The sociological data show different involvement in shift employment depending on place of residence, gender and age, marital status and level of education. The same social-territorial and social-demographic features are evident at the national level. At the federal level, internal labor migration, as a tool for social-economic development, helps to solve the problem of labor shortage in certain areas and sectors of economy; therefore, such labor migration is supported by legal acts. At the regional level, it decreases the labor and demographic potential of the regions that provide labor migrants. To preserve the economic and demographic potential and to strengthen the competitiveness of such regions, we need to develop regional labor markets and labor mobility within regions.

LABOR MIGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-128
Author(s):  
Galina Semeko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eastern Partnership Countries ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

Quarantine measures and restrictions on movement associated with the spread of the COVID-19 virus have a serious impact on the mobility of the population in the EU, in particular on the labor migration. The pandemic highlighted the significant contribution of the migrant workforce to the keeping vital sections of the European economy operational, which necessitated a reassessment of its role and the adaptation of immigration policy. The article analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the situation of migrant workers, their employment, wages, remittances to their homeland, as well as on the regulation of migration flows and immigration policy. The problems of labor migration from the Eastern Partnership countries to the EU countries are also considered.

The European Union as a laboratory of paradiplomacy in the context of international and domestic determinants of regions’ foreign activities

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Barbara Curyło
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Engagement ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Regional Governments

The aim of this article is to propose an analytical framework of the EU as a laboratory of paradiplomacy in context of international and domestic determinants of the regions’ foreign activities. The article shades some light on the definitions of paradyplomacy, which allow to understand the ambiguity of the status of regions in international relations. Firstly, the dimensions and types of paradiplomacy are identified. Secondly, the discourse concerning international and domestic determinants of international engagement of regional governments is identified. Then, the framework of the EU as a laboratory of paradiplomacy is explained in the three subsequent parts. Firstly, the EU is referred to as an intermestic determinant of paradiplomacy, what results from the specific nature of the EU that corresponds with the international and domestic determinants of paradiplomacy in general. Secondly, the EU is addressed as an arena of paradiplomacy where various patterns of regional governments’ presence in Brussels are tested. Finally, paradiplomacy in the EU is addressed as a scholarly challenge for the further research.

scholarly journals PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF UKRAINIAN LABOR MIGRANTS IN EUROPE

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
KORTUKOVA Tamara
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Bilateral Agreements ◽  
Seasonal Workers ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
The Eu

Background. Citizens of Ukraine are one of the largest groups of seasonal workers in the European Union. At the same time, Ukrainian migrant workers often suffer violations of their rights abroad. In this aspect, Ukraine has an urgent task to protect the rights of Ukrainian seasonal migrant workers abroad. For European Union, despite the economic crisis that has led to higher unemployment, there is an urgent need for seasonal workers in the EU Member States, due to the fact that seasonal work is generally not attractive for the EU labor market. The aim of the article is to determine the features of protection of the rights of Ukrainian seasonal migrant workers in the European Union. Materials and methods. The research is carried out on the basis of general and special research methods, in particular, such as: discourse and content analysis, system analysis method, induction and deduction method, historical-legal method, formal-legal method, comparative-legal method, and others. Results. Seasonal work is one of the types of temporary employment, which is limited to a certain period of time. In the European Union, seasonal work is not attractive to citizens of the European Union. In this regard, it should be noted that the Member States of the European Union have a long practice of attracting seasonal migrant workers to their labor market, which was especially intensified in the post-war period, characterized by labor shortages on the European continent, which led to this policy development. Today, with the onset of the global pandemic COVID-19 and the starting of lockdown, the European Union still needs seasonal migrant workers, especially in the agricultural sector, to perform seasonal work. In this area, the EU has developed supranational legislation, which was analyzed in the article. Conclusion. Given that Ukrainians are one of the largest groups of seasonal workers in the European Union, it is important for Ukraine to protect its citizens abroad, which, in particular, can be strengthened by signing bilateral agreements with EU Member States on employment and social protection of Ukrainian citizens; agreements on mutual employment of employees; agreementson employment and cooperation in the field of labor migration, etc. Keywords: labor migration; seasonal migration; the right to equal treatment; Seasonal Workers Directive; bilateral agreements on labor migration.

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